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Assessment of Hemodynamic Changes During Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation With Flo-Trac Vigileo (TM) Monitor.

NCT00631683 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL

Last updated 2020-11-05

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Summary

Failure to wean from mechanical ventilation (failure to get the patients off the breathing machine) is associated with prolonged stay in the intensive care unit and increased risk of death. Some patients have difficulty successfully getting off the ventilator and breathing on their own. Usually this difficulty is due to lung problems. But sometimes it is due to heart problems, or heart failure. To improve a patient's chances of successfully getting off the ventilator early, it is helpful to the doctors to know if patient has heart failure and to measure how severe. With the new monitoring system being studied here, doctors may be able to detect and measure heart failure more easily.

A new monitor (Vigileo TM) that is connected with a specific cable (Flo-TracTM) to a catheter that is inside the patient's artery (arterial line) has lately been developed. This monitor can estimate the amount of blood that the heart is pumping per minute, known as cardiac output. The heart is supposed to pump blood harder when a patient is being weaned from the breathing machine. With the above mentioned monitor, we hope to detect those patients whose hearts are weak and are not pumping as hard as they should.

Conditions

  • Mechanical Ventilation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Edwards Lifesciences

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Roberto F Casal, MD · The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-02-29
Primary Completion
2008-02-29
Completion
2008-02-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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